James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings The Deathless and the Dying. London 11.2025
Nov 16, 2025
A deep dive into the ground of awareness and how apparent opposites like birth and death arise from one source. Talks about how raw light and sound congeal into concepts that create a dying self. Covers practices to relax into unborn openness, stages of dying and the bardos, and how reducing grasping readies the mind for liberation.
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Relax Into Unborn Presence
- Cultivate guru-yoga style relaxation and open awareness to recognize unborn presence.
- James Low recommends simple practice: relax, open and avoid grasping to touch the ground.
A Final Moment With His Mother
- James Low describes kissing his mother's cold dead lips and realizing 'mum-ness' had faded.
- The example shows how embodiment and identity dissolve at death into mere apparitional form.
Practice Letting Go Before Death
- Practice non-grasping and letting go to ease dying and reduce struggle.
- James Low warns: stop clinging to past identity and prepare by relaxing into the flow.